No Such Person
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, comes a new riveting page-turner.
Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible--but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical summer is anything but for this seemingly ordinary family.
Shortly after they arrive at their cozy family cottage on the river, Lander meets and is smitten witha handsome young man, and they begin to date. Miranda has a bad feeling about her sister's new boyfriend. And when the family must deal with an unimaginable nightmare, Miranda can't help feeling that the boyfriend has something to do with it.
The police say they have solid evidence against Lander. Miranda wants to believe in her sister when she swears she is innocent. But as Miranda digs deeper into the past few weeks of Lander's life, she wonders why everything keeps pointing to Lander's guilt.
"Jangling suspense juxtaposed with cozy details of family life keeps thriller master Cooney’s latest zooming along." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Full of twists and turns . . . has all the elements that keep young mystery lovers coming back for more."--School Library Journal
"No one writes suspense like Cooney . . . . Haunting, harrowing, and hard to put down."--Kirkus Reviews
"Cleverly plotted . . . rooted in suspense . . . fully satisfying. Mystery fans will be delighted."--Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jangling suspense juxtaposed with cozy details of family life keeps thriller master Cooney's latest zooming along. While spending the summer at their family's home on the Connecticut River, easy-going 15-year-old Miranda Allerdon and her driven, med-school-bound sister, Lander, witness what appears to be a freak water-skiing accident. Miranda is one of the few bystanders to see that the boy driving the motorboat seemed to intentionally maneuver the water-skier he was towing in front of a giant barge. Ignoring Miranda's suspicions, Lander is smitten with the motorboat driver and begins dating him. Miranda's talents get a chance to shine when another apparent accident, chillingly teased in the opening pages of the novel, thrusts Lander outside the boundaries of her carefully planned life. An unexpected romance for Miranda provides a sweet counterpoint to the novel's knife-edge mayhem. Viewed in isolation, some of the plot twists edge toward the incredible, but Cooney's knack for distinctive characterizations grounds the story firmly in the familiar world, while the third-person narration strikes an enticing balance between intimacy and cool detachment. Ages 12 up.
